Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion

A. Mossa, Mahmoud; Echeikh, Hamdi; Diab, Ahmed A. Zaki; Quynh, Nguyen Vu

doi:10.3390/electronics9081269

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Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion

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Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia 61111, Egypt

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Department of Electrical Engineering, National Engineering School of Monastir, Monastir 5035, Tunisia

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Electrical and Electronics Department, Lac Hong University, Dong Nai 810000, Vietnam

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Electronics 2020, 9(8), 1269; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081269

Submission received: 14 July 2020 / Revised: 3 August 2020 / Accepted: 4 August 2020 / Published: 7 August 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Electric Motors, Drives, Power Converters and Related Systems)

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The present paper is concerned with introducing an effective direct power control (DPC) approach for a sensor-less doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). The derivation of the proposed DPC approach is performed in a systematic manner in which the design of the rotor current controllers is well analyzed, which clarifies the real base of the control system as when and why it works properly. The operation of the proposed DPC approach is based on the stator voltage-oriented control principle in which the stator voltage is aligned with the quadrature axis of the rotating reference frame. To obtain maximum generation efficiency, the reactive power reference value is derived based on a loss minimization criterion (LMC) that is described and analyzed in detail. To enhance the robustness of the control system, an effective rotor position estimator is proposed that is robust against the system uncertainties, such as the parameters’ variation. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed sensor-less DPC approach, the DFIG dynamic performance is tested for a wide range of operating speeds. The obtained results confirm and emphasize the feasibility of the proposed control approach and its LMC methodology in improving the generation efficiency and in obtaining high dynamic performance from the DFIG.

Keywords: power control; voltage oriented control; losses minimization; sensor-less drive; control design; bode plot; rotor position; co-ordinate transformation

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A. Mossa, M.; Echeikh, H.; Diab, A.A.Z.; Quynh, N.V. Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion. Electronics 2020, 9, 1269. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081269

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A. Mossa M, Echeikh H, Diab AAZ, Quynh NV. Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion. Electronics. 2020; 9(8):1269. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081269

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A. Mossa, Mahmoud, Hamdi Echeikh, Ahmed A. Zaki Diab, and Nguyen Vu Quynh. 2020. "Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion" Electronics 9, no. 8: 1269. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081269

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A. Mossa, M., Echeikh, H., Diab, A. A. Z., & Quynh, N. V. (2020). Effective Direct Power Control for a Sensor-Less Doubly Fed Induction Generator with a Losses Minimization Criterion. Electronics, 9(8), 1269. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081269

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